Disabling mouse acceleration for FPS
Also searched as: mouse acceleration fps · disable mouse accel · turn off mouse acceleration · enhance pointer precision fps · mouse accel off fps
What it does
Turning off mouse acceleration — Windows 'Enhance pointer precision', or an in-game acceleration setting — to gain frames.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. Mouse acceleration changes how far your crosshair travels based on how FAST you move the mouse — it shapes how aiming feels and touches nothing the GPU does to draw a frame, so no frame counter will move. There is a strong reason to turn it off anyway: with acceleration on, the same hand motion lands a different distance depending on speed, so your muscle memory never settles; off gives you a consistent 1-to-1 feel. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
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